Education Center

The Mini-Storage Messenger Education Center is a one-stop resource area where you can find current and past issues of Messenger, as well as individual Free and Paid Articles, Educational Videos, a library of informative Webinars, previous issues of MessengerXtra, as well as current and past quarterly editions of Self-Storage Now and Self-Storage Canada, and a variety of Educational Workshops. Presented in a user-friendly format, content in the Education Center covers almost every topic in the self storage industry from maintenance, management, finance, construction, sales, valuations, property taxes, lien laws and more, and is searchable by topic, title, or author.

Past Messenger Issues

MiniCo Publishing keeps a limited inventory or archived Mini-Storage Messenger print issues that date back to February of 1999 for those doing historical market research, self-storage industry trend research, and more. Being that we have a limited quantity, archives are available on a first come, first served basis. Digital Issues are available from January, 2009 to present and are free to subscribers as well as available for purchase to non-subscribers.

Free Articles

As the Education Destination for Self-Storage, we offer more than 2,000 free articles from the Messenger archives. Searchable by topic and author, these educational articles will help in expanding your knowledge of the industry, its latest trends, historical market data, legislative trends, self-storage sales trends, and many other topics pertinent to the self-storage industry.

Paid Articles

Similar to our Free Articles, we offer a wide selection of articles for purchase in both digital and print formats. MiniCo Publishing can also customize article reprints to suit your needs. As the Education Destination for Self-Storage, we offer more than 300 paid articles from the Messenger archives. Minimally priced and searchable by topic and author, these educational articles will assist you in your research, and in expanding your knowledge of the self-storage industry.

Educational Workshops

Expand your self-storage knowledge with educational workshops and videos presented by well-known industry icons. We are constantly curating educational video content that is of the highest education standards ... standards that we set over 30 years ago. Check back from time to time to view the latest videos in our Educational Video Archives.

About Mini Storage Messenger

Established in 1979, the Mini-Storage Messenger, published by MiniCo Insurance Agency, is the leading monthly publication covering the global self-storage industry. The Mini-Storage Messenger is, first and foremost, an unbiased education tool for the self-storage industry. All of our articles, either written by our in-house writers or contributed by industry leaders, provide the highest-value educational takeaway of any other publication in our industry and that is why we continue to have record subscription levels year over year. Other resources we publish include the annual Self-Storage Almanac, Self-Storage Canada and Self-Storage Now! Advertising is available in both print and digital versions of each publication. MiniCo also offers custom publishing services including editing, cover art, layout and design, printing, marketing and promotion, sales and custom options.